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{{Short description|2005 season of British sci-fi TV series}}
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{{Infobox television season
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| showrunner   = [[Russell T Davies]]
| starring     = {{Unbulleted list|[[Christopher Eccleston]]|[[Billie Piper]]}}
| num_stories  = 10
| num_episodes = 13
| network      = [[BBC One]]
| first_aired  = {{Start date|2005|3|26|df=y}}
| last_aired   = {{End date|2005|6|18|df=y}}
| prev_season  = [[Doctor Who (season 26)|Season 26]] (season)<br />''[[Doctor Who (film)|Doctor Who]]'' (film)
| episode_list = List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)
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The first series of the 2005 revival of the [[British television|British]] [[science fiction on television|science fiction]] programme ''[[Doctor Who]]'' began on 26 March 2005 with the episode "[[Rose (Doctor Who episode)|Rose]]". This marked the end of the programme's 16 year absence from episodic television following its cancellation in [[Doctor Who season 26|1989]], and the first new televised ''Doctor Who'' story since the broadcast of the [[Doctor Who (film)|television movie]] starring [[Paul McGann]] in 1996. The finale episode, "[[The Parting of the Ways]]", was broadcast on 18 June 2005. The show was revived by longtime ''Doctor Who'' fan [[Russell T Davies]], who had been lobbying the [[BBC]] since the late 1990s to bring the show back. The first series comprised 13 episodes, eight of which Davies wrote. Davies, [[Julie Gardner]] and [[Mal Young]] served as executive producers, [[Phil Collinson]] as producer.

The show depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric [[Time Lord]] known as [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]], who [[time travel|travels through time]] and space in his time machine, the [[TARDIS]], which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s British [[police box]]. With his [[Companion (Doctor Who)|companions]], he explores time and space, faces [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens|a variety of foes]] and saves civilizations, helping people and righting wrongs.

The first series features [[Christopher Eccleston]] as the [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]] of the Doctor, his only series in the role, accompanied by [[Billie Piper]], as his first and main companion [[Rose Tyler]], whom he plucks from obscurity on planet Earth, and to whom he grows increasingly attached. He also travels briefly with unruly boy-genius [[Adam Mitchell (Doctor Who)|Adam Mitchell]], played by [[Bruno Langley]], and with 51st-century con man and former "Time Agent" [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]], portrayed by [[John Barrowman]]. Episodes in the series form a loose story arc, based upon the recurring phrase "Bad Wolf", the significance of which goes unexplained until the two-part series finale. Alongside the "Bad Wolf" arc, the revived era re-introduces the Doctor as the sole survivor of an event known as the [[Time War (Doctor Who)|Time War]], which the Doctor claims wiped out all of the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s.

The series premiere was watched by 10.81 million viewers, and four days after the premiere episode was broadcast, ''Doctor Who'' was renewed for a [[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas special]] as well as a [[Doctor Who (series 2)|second series]]. The series was well received by both critics and fans, winning a [[BAFTA Award]] for the first time in ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s history. The approval from [[Michael Grade]], who had previously forced an 18-month hiatus on the show in 1985, and had postponed ''Doctor Who'' out of personal dislike on several occasions, was cited as a factor in the show's resurgence. The show's popularity ultimately led to a resurgence in family-orientated Saturday night drama.
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== Episodes ==
Unlike the classic era of the series that ended in 1989, the plan with the new series was to have each episode as a standalone story, with no serials.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Cavan|last=Scott|title=The Way Back Part One: Bring Me to Life|journal=[[Doctor Who Magazine]]|publisher=[[Panini Comics]]|location=[[Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent]]|issue=463|page=21|date=25 July 2013}}</ref> Of the thirteen episodes in the series, seven of them followed this format; the remaining six were grouped together into three two-part stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/series-one/ |title=Doctor Who Series One - Episode Guide |publisher=The Doctor Who Site |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008045701/http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/series-one/ |archive-date= 8 October 2016 }}</ref> Also, for the first time since ''[[The Gunfighters (Doctor Who)|The Gunfighters]]'' in the [[Doctor Who (season 3)|third season]], each episode was given an individual title, which was the case with the standalone and two-part stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/gunfighters/detail.shtml |title=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Gunfighters - Details |publisher=BBC |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102040310/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/gunfighters/detail.shtml |archive-date= 2 January 2014 }}</ref>

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| EpisodeNumber   = 157
| EpisodeNumber2  = 1
| Title           = [[Rose (Doctor Who episode)|Rose]]
| DirectedBy      = [[Keith Boak]]
| WrittenBy       = [[Russell T Davies]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|3|26|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.1
| Viewers         = 10.81
| Aux4            = 76
| ShortSummary    = In the basement of the shop where [[Rose Tyler]] works, plastic [[mannequin]]s begin to attack her. The [[Ninth Doctor]] rescues her and they flee the building, which he blows up. The next day, Rose and her boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith]] visit a man named Clive who runs a [[conspiracy theory]] website, concerning a man fitting the Doctor's description, who has appeared throughout history. While Rose is talking to Clive, Mickey is kidnapped and replaced by a plastic duplicate. Rose meets the Doctor again, where he reveals Mickey to be an [[Auton]], and he and Rose locate the Nestene Consciousness which controls the Autons and has been using the [[London Eye]] as a transmitter. At this point, Auton mannequins come alive and start killing other people. Rose saves the Doctor and those that the Autons had been killing, and she decides to travel with the Doctor through time and space in his time machine the [[TARDIS]]. 
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| EpisodeNumber   = 158 
| EpisodeNumber2  = 2
| Title           = [[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]
| DirectedBy      = [[Euros Lyn]]
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|4|2|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.2
| Viewers         = 7.97
| Aux4            = 76
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor takes Rose to the year five billion, where they land on a [[space station]] orbiting the Earth named Platform One. Among the elite alien guests assembled to watch the Earth be destroyed by the expanding Sun is [[List of Doctor Who villains#Lady Cassandra|Lady Cassandra]], who takes pride in being the last pure human, though she has received many operations that have altered her image. It is discovered that Cassandra, to receive money for her many operations, plans to let the guests die and then profit from the stock increases of their competitors. She releases discreet robotic spiders all over Platform One, and they start interfering with the systems. She departs via teleportation and the spiders bring down the shields, causing harmful direct solar radiation to penetrate the station. The Doctor manages to reactivate the system and save Rose, after which he brings Cassandra back and she ruptures from the intense solar heat. 
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| EpisodeNumber   = 159
| EpisodeNumber2  = 3
| Title           = [[The Unquiet Dead]]
| DirectedBy      = Euros Lyn
| WrittenBy       = [[Mark Gatiss]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|4|9|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.3
| Viewers         = 8.86
| Aux4            = 80
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor and Rose travel back to Cardiff in 1869, where a [[funeral parlour]], run by Gabriel Sneed with his [[clairvoyance|clairvoyant]] servant girl Gwyneth, contains corpses which have been animated by a mysterious blue vapour. Sneed and Gwyneth kidnap Rose, and the Doctor teams up with [[Charles Dickens]] to track her down. In the funeral parlour, the group is reunited and the Doctor determines that the blue vapour is the result of a being trying to cross a [[Cardiff Rift|rift]] in the [[spacetime]] the parlour is built on. They are revealed to be the [[List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (0–9, A–G)#G|Gelth]], who animate bodies until they can build their own, and are using Gwyneth as a bridge. The Gelth lie about their numbers and intentions, intending to kill billions of living humans, and not just inhabit existing corpses. Gwyneth volunteers to ignite the gas which Dickens flooded the cellar with, closing the rift and trapping all the Gelth. The Doctor, Rose, and Dickens escape before the parlour is engulfed in flames.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 160a
| EpisodeNumber2  = 4
| Title           = [[Aliens of London]]
| DirectedBy      = Keith Boak
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|4|16|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.4
| Viewers         = 7.63
| Aux4            = 82
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor intends to take Rose back to her home 12 hours after she left, but they arrive a year after instead. Her mother [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] is furious with the Doctor, and Mickey has been suspected of murdering Rose. Rose and the Doctor witness a spaceship crash into [[Big Ben]] and fall into the [[River Thames]]. The Doctor suspects this is a trick and discovers that the ship was launched from Earth, and that the pilot is a pig, modified by alien technology. The Prime Minister cannot be located, and is replaced by [[List of Doctor Who villains#Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen|Joseph Green]], while [[Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen|Margaret Blaine]] and [[List of Doctor Who villains#"Oliver Charles"|Oliver Charles]], other high-ranking members of the government, are also called. The group is revealed to be the [[Slitheen]], an alien family who have compressed themselves into human "suits".
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| EpisodeNumber   = 160b
| EpisodeNumber2  = 5
| Title           = [[World War Three (Doctor Who)|World War Three]]
| DirectedBy      = Keith Boak
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|4|23|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.5
| Viewers         = 7.98
| Aux4            = 81
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor learns that the Slitheen are not invading Earth, but rather raiding it for commercial profit. The Slitheen claim there is a threat to the world's security and request that the [[United Nations]] release the nuclear activation code, so they can strike down a nonexistent ship supposedly hovering over London. The Doctor speculates they will fire at other countries and start [[World War III]], which the Slitheen respond in the affirmative, explaining that they will sell the irradiated remains of Earth as cheap spaceship fuel. Meanwhile, another Slitheen breaks into Mickey's flat where he uses [[acetic acid]] in vinegar to destroy it. The Doctor helps Mickey to fire a non-nuclear missile at [[10 Downing Street]] to destroy the Slitheen gathered there. The Doctor, Rose, and [[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[Harriet Jones]] manage to hide in a reinforced room and survive. Meanwhile, the Doctor has earned Jackie's trust and she allows Rose to continue travelling with him whilst he offers Mickey an opportunity to join the two on the TARDIS, but he turns it down.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 161
| EpisodeNumber2  = 6
| Title           = [[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]
| DirectedBy      = [[Joe Ahearne]]
| WrittenBy       = [[Robert Shearman]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|4|30|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.6
| Viewers         = 8.63
| Aux4            = 84
| ShortSummary    = The TARDIS is drawn off course by a signal and Rose and the Doctor end up near Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012, in an underground bunker owned by [[Henry van Statten]], a rich collector of alien artefacts. The Doctor encounters his one living exhibit, which the Doctor is horrified to discover is a [[Dalek]] that survived the [[Time War (Doctor Who)|Time War]]; the Dalek is the last survivor of a race of [[genetically manipulated]] [[mutant (fiction)|mutant]]s bound on [[Genocide|purging the universe of all non-Dalek life]], and the Doctor's greatest enemy. One of van Statten's employees, [[Adam Mitchell (Doctor Who)|Adam Mitchell]], leads Rose to the Dalek, but she takes pity on it and touches it, allowing it to absorb her [[DNA]] and become active. The Dalek kills many soldiers before catching up with Rose, Adam and the Doctor. Rose becomes trapped with the Dalek, but it spares her life as it has gained sympathy from Rose's DNA and destroys itself. As the Doctor and Rose leave, Adam boards the TARDIS to avoid the closure of van Statten's Vault.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 162
| EpisodeNumber2  = 7
| Title           = [[The Long Game]]
| DirectedBy      = [[Brian Grant (director)|Brian Grant]]
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|5|7|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.7
| Viewers         = 8.01
| Aux4            = 81
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor, Rose, and Adam travel to the year 200,000 and land on the [[space station]] Satellite 5, which controls journalism. Ever since the satellite began broadcasting, something has held the human race's attitude and technology back. [[List of Doctor Who villains#Editor|The Editor]] invites the Doctor and Rose to the elite Floor 500, where he holds them captive, explaining that he and a creature known as the [[List of Doctor Who villains#Jagrafess|Jagrafess]] have made, through Satellite 5, the "Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire" a place where the news has installed fear in the human race, keeping them in a closed society. Meanwhile, Adam has installed a port in his head and is transmitting all the knowledge on Satellite 5 to his parents' [[answering machine]] at home. The journalist Cathica redirects the heat to Floor 500, allowing Rose and the Doctor to escape, while the Editor and the Jagrafess are destroyed by the heat. The Doctor is furious at Adam and returns him to his house, destroying the answering machine and banishing Adam from the TARDIS.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 163
| EpisodeNumber2  = 8
| Title           = [[Father's Day (Doctor Who)|Father's Day]]
| DirectedBy      = Joe Ahearne
| WrittenBy       = [[Paul Cornell]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|5|14|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.8
| Viewers         = 8.06
| Aux4            = 83
| ShortSummary    = Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to the day her father [[Pete Tyler]] died in a [[Hit and run (vehicular)|hit and run]] accident. Instead of being with him as he dies, Rose saves Pete's life, creating a wound in time and space, which flying creatures known as [[List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens#Reaper|Reapers]] attempt to treat by consuming everyone in it. The guests at the wedding of Jackie and Pete's friends hide in a church while the Doctor tries to summon the TARDIS inside. Jackie accuses Pete of having another daughter, and to prove that Rose is the same as the baby Rose, he puts the baby in the older Rose's arms, causing a Reaper to appear inside the church and kill the Doctor. Pete realises he must die for everything to be repaired, and throws himself in front of the car, which has been appearing and reappearing around the corner of the church, causing everyone the Reapers consumed, including the Doctor, to return.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 164a
| EpisodeNumber2  = 9
| Title           = [[The Empty Child]]
| DirectedBy      = [[James Hawes]]
| WrittenBy       = [[Steven Moffat]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|5|21|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.9
| Viewers         = 7.11
| Aux4            = 84
| ShortSummary    = Chasing a metal cylinder through the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Rose land in London during [[the Blitz]]. Rose follows a young boy in a gas mask who repeatedly asks if she is his mother. She climbs a rope attached to a barrage balloon that rises into the air, and is rescued by Captain [[Jack Harkness]] (previously a Time Agent, now a con man), who interests her in buying a valuable warship. The Doctor talks with a young woman named Nancy who knows the boy is connected to a bomb-like object that recently fell. She directs the Doctor to a hospital where Dr Constantine shows him patients with injuries and gas masks identical to the boy's. Nancy reveals the child is her brother, Jamie. Rose and Jack arrive in time to save the Doctor as Constantine begins to transform like his patients.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 164b
| EpisodeNumber2  = 10
| Title           = [[The Doctor Dances]]
| DirectedBy      = James Hawes
| WrittenBy       = Steven Moffat
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|5|28|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.10
| Viewers         = 6.86
| Aux4            = 85
| ShortSummary    = Jack explains that he sent the metal object through the time vortex to attract Time Agents to this time period, where he would have them pay for the object, but before they could receive it, a German bomb would fall on it. Jack claims that it is a perfectly safe and "empty" old medical transport, but the Doctor is suspicious. At the site where the transport is held, the Doctor realises that it once contained [[Nanorobot|nanogenes]] that are able to heal wounds, and deduces that the nanogenes attempted to heal Jamie, but thought that all humans should have similar injuries and gas masks. Nancy claims it is all her fault as she is actually Jamie's mother, which she admits in front of the child. As they hug, the nanogenes identify Nancy's DNA as being his mother's and reverse Jamie's transformation so that they resemble each other; the rest is done to all the others who had been converted. Jack captures the bomb that would have fallen on the site and the Doctor and Rose rescue him before it explodes, inviting him on the TARDIS.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 165
| EpisodeNumber2  = 11
| Title           = [[Boom Town (Doctor Who)|Boom Town]]
| DirectedBy      = Joe Ahearne
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|6|4|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.11
| Viewers         = 7.68
| Aux4            = 82
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor, Rose, and Jack visit Cardiff to refuel the TARDIS at the rift, and Mickey meets them there. They discover that the Slitheen impersonating Margaret Blaine is now the mayor of Cardiff, and they capture her, suspicious of what she has done. The Doctor sees that she has created a nuclear power plant designed to open the rift and destroy Earth, and has acquired an extrapolator she would use to flee. Margaret objects to being taken back to her home planet, as she is considered a criminal there and would be given the death penalty. After several failed attempts in killing the Doctor, Margaret requests to be taken to another planet. Jack sees the opportunity to use Margaret's extrapolator to speed up recharging the TARDIS, but this proves to be a trap as it was meant to send the nearest alien power source to the rift. As an earthquake strikes Cardiff, Margaret looks into the heart of the TARDIS, which gives her a second chance at life, restoring her back into an egg.
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| EpisodeNumber   = 166a
| EpisodeNumber2  = 12
| Title           = [[Bad Wolf]]
| DirectedBy      = Joe Ahearne
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|6|11|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.12
| Viewers         = 6.81
| Aux4            = 86
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor, Rose, and Jack wake up from amnesia into various reality television and game shows; the Doctor is in a ''[[Big Brother (British TV series)|Big Brother]]''-like house, Rose is a contestant on ''[[The Weakest Link]]'', where those eliminated are thought to be disintegrated by the Anne Droid, and Jack is on a ''[[What Not to Wear (British TV series)|What Not to Wear]]''-like show where two female robots offer to give contestants a new image. The Doctor and Jack escape from their shows, which are deadlier than their 21st century counterparts, and find they are on Satellite 5, one hundred years after the Doctor's last visit, where it is run by the Bad Wolf Corporation and known as the Game Station. The Doctor, Jack, and Big Brother contestant Lynda find Rose as she is disintegrated on The Weakest Link, and they travel to Floor 500, where Jack figures out the contestants are not disintegrated, but rather transmitted to a point in space. They learn that Rose has arrived on a ship containing Daleks, and the Doctor vows to rescue her and destroy the Daleks, which prompts the fleet of almost half a million Daleks to begin invading Earth.
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{{Episode list/sublist|Doctor Who series 1
| EpisodeNumber   = 166b
| EpisodeNumber2  = 13
| Title           = [[The Parting of the Ways]]
| DirectedBy      = Joe Ahearne
| WrittenBy       = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|6|18|df=y}}
| ProdCode        = 1.13
| Viewers         = 6.91
| Aux4            = 89
| ShortSummary    = The Doctor and Jack take the TARDIS to Rose and return her to the Game Station after confronting the Dalek Emperor. The Doctor prepares to destroy the Daleks using a delta wave. He tricks Rose into entering the TARDIS and remotely sends her back home to safety. The Daleks invade the Game Station, killing Lynda and Jack among many others. Regaining her composure at home, Rose notices the words "Bad Wolf" around the area, and realises it is a message. Mickey pries open the heart of the TARDIS and Rose establishes contact. Empowered by the Time Vortex, Rose returns to the Doctor, where she uses the vortex's power to destroy all the Daleks, resurrect Jack, and scatter the words "Bad Wolf" throughout time and space to lead herself here. To prevent the power from killing Rose, the Doctor absorbs it by kissing her; she wakes up in the TARDIS just as the time energy is destroying the Doctor's cells, causing him to [[Regeneration (Doctor Who)|regenerate]] into the [[Tenth Doctor]].
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== Cast ==
{{See also|List of Doctor Who cast members}}

=== Main cast ===
The production team was tasked with finding a suitable actor for the role of the Doctor. Most notably, they approached film stars [[Hugh Grant]] and [[Rowan Atkinson]] for the role.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/five-actors-who-were-almost-the-doctor-53561.htm |title=Five Actors Who Were Almost THE Doctor |work=Doctor Who TV |date=3 October 2013 |access-date=15 May 2017 |first=Martin |last=Backman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031213757/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/five-actors-who-were-almost-the-doctor-53561.htm |archive-date=31 October 2013}}</ref> By the time Mal Young had suggested actor [[Christopher Eccleston]] to Davies, Eccleston was one of only three left in the running for the role: the other two candidates are rumoured in the industry to have been [[Alan Davies]] and [[Bill Nighy]].<ref>Aldridge and Murray pp. 190–192</ref> His involvement in the programme was announced on 20 March 2004 following months of speculation.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/03_march/20/who.shtml |title=Christopher Eccleston to play Doctor Who |date=20 March 2004 |access-date=2 July 2008 |publisher=BBC |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008155542/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/03_march/20/who.shtml |archive-date= 8 October 2007}}</ref> In the April 2004 issue of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Davies announced that Eccleston's Doctor would indeed be the [[Ninth Doctor]], relegating Richard E. Grant's [[Shalka Doctor]] to non-official status. [[Russell T Davies]] revealed that Eccleston asked for the role in an e-mail.<ref name="leak" />

[[File:Space City 2016 - Billie Piper (26730694674).jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Billie Piper]], who portrays [[Rose Tyler]], was welcomed by fans.|alt=A woman in early 20s with blonde hair and brown eyes, smiling, wearing a white T-shirt, a black tank top and a pink scarf.]]
After the announcement that the show would be returning, Davies revealed that the new companion would "probably" be called [[Rose Tyler]] in an edition of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' published in November 2003.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Davies|first=Russell T|author-link=Russell T Davies|date=November 2003 |title=Gallifrey Guardian Extra! |journal=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |issue=337 |page=6 |quote=I want the Doctor, at least one companion, whose name is probably Rose Tyler. }}</ref> This name was confirmed in March 2004, and it was announced at the same time that former [[Celebrity|pop star]] [[Billie Piper]] was being considered for the role.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3576629.stm |date=24 May 2004 |title=Piper in line for ''Doctor Who'' role |work=BBC News |access-date=3 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601121530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3576629.stm |archive-date= 1 June 2009}}</ref> Piper was announced as portraying Rose Tyler on 24 May,<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/05_may/24/billie_piper.shtml |title=Billie Piper is ''Doctor Who'' companion |date=24 May 2004 |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 July 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103122939/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/05_may/24/billie_piper.shtml |archive-date= 3 January 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3743753.stm |date=24 May 2004 |title=Billie Piper is ''Doctor Who'' helper |access-date=30 December 2010 |work=BBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225204132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3743753.stm |archive-date=25 February 2008}}</ref> a character which fulfilled the role of permanent companion during the series, and was welcomed by fans of the show.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3754395.stm |date=28 May 2004 |title=''Doctor Who'' fans back Billie Piper |access-date=30 December 2010 |work=BBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117202912/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3754395.stm |archive-date=17 November 2006}}</ref> Actress [[Georgia Moffett]], daughter of [[Fifth Doctor]] actor [[Peter Davison]] and who would later appear as the title role in the fourth series episode "[[The Doctor's Daughter]]", also auditioned for the role.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2016/01/doctor-who-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-rose |title='Doctor Who': 10 Things You May Not Know About 'Rose' |work=BBC America |access-date=15 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117224421/http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2016/01/doctor-who-10-things-you-may-not-know-about-rose |archive-date=17 January 2016 }}</ref> The original conception of Tyler was slightly different. [[Paul Abbott]] was scheduled to write an episode for the series which would have revealed that Rose's entire life had been manipulated by the Doctor in order to mould her into an ideal companion. Davies eventually wrote "Boom Town" to replace it when Abbott, after months of development, realised he was too busy to work on the script.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The New Doctor |journal=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |issue=360 |publisher=[[Panini Comics]] |date=14 December 2005}}</ref>

{{Wikinews|New Doctor Who quits series, BBC searches for replacement actor}}
The first series was Christopher Eccleston's only series in the role of the Doctor. Eccleston's contract was for a single year because at the time it was uncertain whether the show would continue beyond a single revival series.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Russel T |last=Davies |journal=[[Royal National Theatre]] |title=Book Promotion Speech |date=7 November 2008 }}</ref> Eccleston's intent to leave was revealed on 30 March 2005, shortly after the broadcast of the first episode. The BBC released a statement, attributed to Eccleston, saying that he had decided to leave because he feared becoming [[Typecasting (acting)|typecast]]. On 4 April, the BBC revealed that Eccleston's "statement" was falsely attributed and released without his consent. The BBC admitted that they had broken an agreement made in January not to disclose publicly that he only intended to do one season.<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC admits ''Dr Who'' actor blunder |work=[[BBC News]] |publisher=BBC |date=4 April 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4410943.stm |access-date=7 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209201939/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4410943.stm |archive-date= 9 February 2009}}</ref> In a 2010 interview, Eccleston revealed that he left the show because he "didn't enjoy the environment and the culture that [they], the cast and crew, had to work in", but that he was proud of having played the role.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10312426.stm |title=Christopher Eccleston talks about ''Doctor Who'' exit |date=15 June 2010 |work=BBC News |access-date=2 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/news-extra/article/14123/eccleston-reveals-why-he-quit-doctor-who.html |title=Eccleston reveals why he quit {{-'}}''Doctor Who''{{'-}} |date=15 June 2010 |first=Chloe |last=Turgis |work=[[Yahoo!]] TV UK |access-date=2 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716162416/http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/news-extra/article/14123/eccleston-reveals-why-he-quit-doctor-who.html |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref>

=== Recurring and guest cast ===
The character of [[Adam Mitchell (Doctor Who)|Adam Mitchell]] was first conceived, along with [[Henry van Statten]], during Davies' pitch to the BBC, in a story heavily based on [[Robert Shearman]]'s audio play ''[[Jubilee (audio drama)|Jubilee]]'' called "Return of the Daleks". The production team had always intended for Adam to join the TARDIS after Rose developed a liking for him. To play this role, [[Bruno Langley]] was chosen, previously known for his role on ''[[Coronation Street]]'' as [[Todd Grimshaw]]. It was never intended for Adam to be a long-term companion, Davies wanted to show that not everyone is suitable to join the TARDIS crew and dubbed him "The Companion That Couldn't", he "always wanted to do a show with someone who was a rubbish companion".<ref>Russell, p. 164</ref>

[[John Barrowman]] appears as Captain [[Jack Harkness]], a character introduced in "The Empty Child", where he joined the TARDIS crew for the final five episodes of the series. In naming the character, Davies drew inspiration from the [[Marvel Comics]] character [[Agatha Harkness]].<ref>{{cite interview |last=Barrowman |first=John |subject-link=John Barrowman |interviewer=[[Jonathan Ross (television presenter)|Jonathan Ross]] |title=Jonathan Ross |work=[[BBC Radio 2]] |date=21 October 2006}}</ref> Jack's appearances were conceived with the intention of forming a [[character arc]] in which Jack is transformed from a coward to a hero,<ref>{{cite episode |title={{-'}}Ello, 'Ello, 'Ello |series=Doctor Who Confidential |series-link=Doctor Who Confidential |credits=[[Russell T Davies|Davies, Russell T]]; [[David Tennant|Tennant, David]]; [[John Barrowman|Barrowman, John]]; [[Freema Agyeman|Agyeman, Freema]]; [[Antony Head|Head, Antony]] |network=[[BBC Three]] |airdate=16 June 2007 |series-no=3 |number=40}}</ref> and Barrowman consciously minded this in his portrayal of the character.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/323886_tv17.html |title=Fall TV Preview: Captain Jack (not that one) talks about the gay barrier |date=17 July 2007 |newspaper=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]|last=McFarland |first=Melanie |access-date=11 January 2011}}</ref> Following on that arc, the character's debut episode would leave his morality as ambiguous, publicity materials asking, "is he a force for good or ill?"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4565339.stm |title=The lethal charm of Captain Jack |date=20 May 2005 |work=BBC News |access-date=11 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129125120/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4565339.stm |archive-date=29 January 2008}}</ref> Barrowman himself was a key factor in the conception of Captain Jack. Barrowman says that at the time of his initial casting, Davies and co-executive producer, [[Julie Gardner]] had explained to him that they "basically wrote the character around [John]".<ref name="AE_ Barrowman">{{cite web|url=http://www.afterelton.com/people/2006/5/intbarrowman.html |title=Interview with ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s John Barrowman |date=4 May 2006 |first=Locksley |last=Hall |publisher=[[AfterElton.com]] |access-date=11 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429074027/http://www.afterelton.com/people/2006/5/intbarrowman.html/ |archive-date=29 April 2011}}</ref> On meeting him, Barrowman tried out the character using his native Scottish accent, his normal American accent, and an English accent; Davies decided it "made it bigger if it was an American accent".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a167392/live-doctor-who-panel-at-comic-%20con.html |title=Live: {{-'}}''Doctor Who''{{'}} panel at Comic-Con |last=Wilkes |first=Neil |date=26 July 2009 |work=[[Digital Spy]] |access-date=11 January 2011}}</ref> Barrowman recounts Davies as having been searching for an actor with a "[[matinée idol]] quality", telling him that "the only one in the whole of Britain who could do it was you".<ref name="AE_ Barrowman" />

[[David Tennant]] had been offered the role of the Doctor when he was watching a pre-transmission copy of the series with Davies and Gardner. Tennant initially believed the offer was a joke, but after he realised they were serious, he accepted the role and first appeared in the series finale "The Parting of the Ways".<ref>Aldridge and Murray pp. 196–197</ref> Tennant was announced as Eccleston's replacement on 16 April 2005.<ref name="Eccleston_replacement">{{cite press release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/04_april/16/tennant.shtml |date=16 April 2005 |access-date=2 July 2008 |publisher=BBC |title=David Tennant confirmed as the tenth Doctor Who |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206071854/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/04_april/16/tennant.shtml |archive-date= 6 December 2008}}</ref> Other recurring characters for the series included [[Camille Coduri]] as Rose's mother [[Jackie Tyler]],<ref name="Episode101">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/101-rose |title=101. Rose |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412164747/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/101-rose |archive-date=12 April 2016 }}</ref> and [[Noel Clarke]] as Rose's boyfriend [[Mickey Smith]].<ref name="Episode101" /> Other actors and television presenters who appeared in the series included [[Mark Benton]],<ref name="Episode101" /> [[Zoë Wanamaker]],<ref name="Episode102">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/102-the-end-of-the-world |title=102. The End of the World |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412104715/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/102-the-end-of-the-world |archive-date=12 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Simon Callow]],<ref name="Episode103">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/103-the-unquiet-dead |title=103. The Unquiet Dead |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413133828/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/103-the-unquiet-dead |archive-date=13 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Eve Myles]],<ref name="Episode103" /> [[Penelope Wilton]],<ref name="Episode104-05">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/104-aliens-of-london105-world-war-three |title=104. Aliens of London / 105. World War Three |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413010417/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/104-aliens-of-london105-world-war-three |archive-date=13 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Annette Badland]],<ref name="Episode104-05" /> [[David Verrey]],<ref name="Episode104-05" /> [[Matt Baker (television personality)|Matt Baker]],<ref name="Episode104-05" /> [[Andrew Marr]],<ref name="Episode104-05" /> [[Corey Johnson (actor)|Corey Johnson]],<ref name="Episode106">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/106-dalek |title=106. Dalek |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410110040/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/106-dalek |archive-date=10 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Simon Pegg]],<ref name="Episode107">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/107-the-long-game |title=107. The Long Game |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423050858/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/107-the-long-game |archive-date=23 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Anna Maxwell-Martin]],<ref name="Episode107" /> [[Tamsin Greig]],<ref name="Episode107" /> [[Shaun Dingwall]],<ref name="Episode108">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/108-fathers-day |title=108. Father's Day |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423050910/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/108-fathers-day |archive-date=23 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Florence Hoath]],<ref name="Episode109-10">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/109-the-empty-child110-the-doctor-dances |title=109. The Empty Child / 110. The Doctor Dances |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412044049/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/109-the-empty-child110-the-doctor-dances |archive-date=12 April 2016 }}</ref> [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]],<ref name="Episode109-10" /> [[Jo Joyner]],<ref name="Episode112-13">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/112-bad-wolf113-the-parting-of-the-ways |title=112. Bad Wolf / 113. The Parting of the Ways |date=21 September 2009 |access-date=15 May 2017 |publisher=Doctor Who TV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912085932/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-1-2005/112-bad-wolf113-the-parting-of-the-ways |archive-date=12 September 2016 }}</ref> [[Davina McCall]],<ref name="Episode112-13" /> [[Paterson Joseph]],<ref name="Episode112-13" /> [[Anne Robinson]],<ref name="Episode112-13" /> [[Trinny Woodall]],<ref name="Episode112-13" /> and [[Susannah Constantine]].<ref name="Episode112-13" />

== Production ==

=== Development ===
During the late-90s, Davies, a lifelong ''Doctor Who'' fan, lobbied the BBC to revive the show from its hiatus and reached the discussion stages in late 1998 and early 2002.<ref name="revival">Aldridge and Murray pp. 182–183</ref> His proposals would update the show to be better suited for a 21st-century audience, including the transition from videotape to film, doubling the length of each episode from twenty-five minutes to fifty, keeping the Doctor primarily on Earth in the style of the [[Third Doctor]] [[UNIT]] episodes, and removing "excess baggage" such as [[Gallifrey]] and the [[Time Lord]]s.<ref name="revival" /> His pitch competed against three others: [[Death Comes to Time|Dan Freedman]]'s fantasy retelling, [[Matthew Graham]]'s [[Gothic fiction|Gothic]]-styled pitch, and [[Mark Gatiss]], [[Clayton Hickman]] and [[Gareth Roberts (writer)|Gareth Roberts]]' reboot, which would make the Doctor the [[audience surrogate]] character, instead of his [[companion (Doctor Who)|companion]]s.<ref>Aldridge and Murray pp. 183–185</ref>

In August 2003, the BBC had resolved the issues regarding production rights that had surfaced as a result of the jointly produced [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]]–BBC–[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] [[Doctor Who (1996 film)|1996 ''Doctor Who'' film]], leading the Controller of BBC One [[Lorraine Heggessey]] and Controller of Drama Commissioning [[Jane Tranter]] to approach Gardner and Davies to create a revival of the series to air in a [[primetime]] slot on Saturday nights, as part of the BBC's plan to devolve production to its regional bases. By mid-September, they accepted the deal to produce the series alongside ''[[Casanova (2005 TV serial)|Casanova]]''.<ref>Aldridge and Murray pp. 185–186</ref>

{{Rquote|right|We were told that bringing it back would be impossible, that we would never capture this generation of children. But we did it.|[[Russell T Davies]]|[[British Academy Television Awards 2006|2006 BAFTAs]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4983408.stm |title=Who said what at the 2006 British Academy Television Awards. |date=7 May 2006 |work=BBC News |access-date=3 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406181623/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4983408.stm |archive-date= 6 April 2012}}</ref>}}
Following ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]'', an animated episode which was shown on the ''Doctor Who'' website, the 'real' return of ''Doctor Who'' was announced on 26 September 2003 in a [[press release]] from the [[BBC]].<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/26/dr_who.shtml |date=26 September 2003 |access-date=2 July 2008 |publisher=BBC |title=''Doctor Who'' returns to BBC ONE |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061225183425/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/26/dr_who.shtml |archive-date=25 December 2006}}</ref>

Davies voluntarily wrote a [[Pitch (filmmaking)|pitch]] for the series, the first time he had done so; he previously chose to jump straight to writing [[Television pilot|pilot episodes]] because he felt that a pitch would "feel like [he's] killing the work".<ref name="pitch">Aldridge and Murray pp. 187–189</ref> The fifteen-page pitch outlined a Doctor who was "your best friend; someone you want to be with all the time"; the eighteen-year-old Rose Tyler as a "perfect match" for the new Doctor; avoidance of the forty-year back story "except for the good bits"; the retention of the [[TARDIS]], [[sonic screwdriver]], and [[Dalek]]s; removal of the Time Lords; and also a greater focus on humanity.<ref name="pitch" /> His pitch was submitted for the first production meeting in December 2003, with a series of thirteen episodes obtained by pressure from [[BBC Worldwide]] and a workable budget from [[Julie Gardner]].<ref name="pitch" />

By early 2004, the show had settled into a regular production cycle. Davies, Gardner, and BBC Controller of Drama [[Mal Young]] took posts as executive producers, although Young vacated the role at the end of the series. [[Phil Collinson]], an old colleague from Granada, took the role of producer.<ref name="producers">Aldridge and Murray p. 190</ref> [[Keith Boak]], [[Euros Lyn]], [[Joe Ahearne]], [[Brian Grant (director)|Brian Grant]] and [[James Hawes]] directed the series. Davies' official role as [[head writer]] and [[executive producer]], or "[[showrunner]]", consisted of laying a skeletal plot for the entire series, holding "tone meetings" to correctly identify the tone of an episode, often being described in one word—for example, the "tone word" for Moffat's "[[The Empty Child]]" was "romantic"—and overseeing all aspects of production.<ref name="producers" /> During early production the word "Torchwood", an anagram of "Doctor Who", was used as a [[title ruse]] for the series while filming its first few episodes and on the [[daily rushes]] to ensure they were not intercepted.<ref name="Torchwood">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4349120.stm |title=''Doctor Who'' spin-off made in Wales |date=17 October 2005 |work=BBC News |access-date=12 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813025353/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4349120.stm |archive-date=13 August 2011}}</ref> The word "Torchwood" was later seeded in ''Doctor Who'' and became the name of the spin-off series ''[[Torchwood]]''.<ref name="Torchwood" />

Davies was interested in making an episode that would serve as a [[crossover (fiction)|crossover]] with ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', and involve the TARDIS landing on board the [[Enterprise (NX-01)|NX-01]]. The idea was officially discussed, but the plans were abandoned following the cancellation of ''Enterprise'' in February 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/5199817/the-doctor-whostar-trek-crossover-that-never-was|title=The Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover That Never Was|last=Anders|first=Charlie Jane|publisher=[[io9]]|date=6 April 2009|access-date=7 August 2018|archive-date=7 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807220604/https://io9.gizmodo.com/5199817/the-doctor-whostar-trek-crossover-that-never-was|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Writing ===
[[File:Russelltdaviescrop.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Russell T Davies]] tried to revive the show since the late-90s and wrote the scripts for eight of the 13 episodes in the first series.|alt=A bespectacled man in a black jacket, waistcoat, and tie, pink shirt, and jeans, sitting with his back to a marble-effect wall.]]
The first series of ''Doctor Who'' featured eight scripts by Davies, the remainder being allocated to experienced drama writers and previous writers for the show's [[Doctor Who spin-offs|ancillary releases]]:<ref name="writers">Aldridge and Murray p. 189</ref> [[Steven Moffat]] penned a two-episode story, while [[Mark Gatiss]], [[Robert Shearman]], and [[Paul Cornell]] each wrote one script.<ref name="writers" /> Davies also approached his friend [[Paul Abbott]] and ''[[Harry Potter]]'' author [[J. K. Rowling]] to write for the series, but both declined due to existing commitments.<ref name="writers" /> Shortly after securing writers for the show, Davies stated that he had no intention to approach writers for the old series; the only writer he would have wished to work with was [[Robert Holmes (scriptwriter)|Robert Holmes]], who died in May 1986, halfway through writing his contribution to ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]''.<ref name="writers" />

Elwen Rowlands and [[Helen Raynor]] served as [[script editor]]s for the series. They were hired simultaneous, marking the first time ''Doctor Who'' had female script editors. Rowlands left after the first series for ''[[Life on Mars (British TV series)|Life on Mars]]''.<ref name="raynor">"Script Doctors: Helen Raynor". ''Doctor Who Magazine'' #379. 1 February 2007.</ref> Compared to the original series the role of the script editors was significantly diminished, with the head writer taking most of those responsibilities. Unlike the original series they do not have the power to commission scripts. Instead, they act as liaisons between the production staff and the [[screenwriter]], before passing their joint work to the head writer for a "final polish". Raynor said that the job is not a creative one, "you are a part of it, but you aren't driving it."<ref name="raynor" />

Under producer Davies, the new series had a faster pace than those of the classic series. Rather than four to six-part serials of 25-minute episodes, most of the Ninth Doctor's stories consisted of individual 45-minute episodes, with only three stories out of ten being two-parters. The thirteen episodes were, however, loosely connected in a series-long story arc which brought their disparate threads together in the series finale. Davies took cues from American [[fantasy television]] series such as ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Smallville (TV series)|Smallville]]'', most notably ''Buffy''{{'}}s concepts of series-long [[story arc]]s and the "[[Big Bad]]".<ref>Aldridge and Murray p. 208</ref> Also, like the original series, stories often flowed directly into one another or were linked together in some way. Notably, in common only with the seventh and twenty-sixth seasons of the original series, every story of the season takes place on or near Earth.<ref>{{cite web|date=19 November 2013 |title=GALACTIC YO-YO: Doctor Who's trips to Earth... and beyond |website=[[The Register]] |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/doctor_who_data_earth_space_travels/ |access-date=15 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017113604/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/doctor_who_data_earth_space_travels/ |archive-date=17 October 2015 }}</ref> This fact is directly addressed in the original novel ''[[The Monsters Inside (Doctor Who)|The Monsters Inside]]'', in which Rose and the Doctor joke about the fact that all their adventures to date have taken place on Earth or on neighbouring space stations.<ref name="TheMonstersInside">{{cite web |url=https://booksaz.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/review-doctor-who-the-monsters-inside/ |title=REVIEW: Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole |date=2 September 2013 |access-date=15 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://whoniverse.net/reviews/NS02.php |title=The Monsters Inside Reviewed |access-date=15 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316211016/http://www.whoniverse.net/reviews/NS02.php |archive-date=16 March 2016 }}</ref>

The stories of the series varied quite significantly in tone, with the production team showcasing the various genres inhabited by ''Doctor Who'' over the years. Examples include the "pseudo-historical" story "[[The Unquiet Dead]]"; the far-future [[whodunnit]] of "[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]"; Earthbound alien invasion stories in "[[Rose (Doctor Who episode)|Rose]]" and "[[Aliens of London]]"/"[[World War Three (Doctor Who)|World War Three]]"; "base under siege" in "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]"; and [[horror film|horror]] in "The Empty Child". Even the [[Doctor Who spin-offs|spin-off]] media were represented, with "Dalek" taking elements from writer [[Rob Shearman]]'s own audio play ''[[Jubilee (audio drama)|Jubilee]]'' and the emotional content of [[Paul Cornell]]'s "[[Father's Day (Doctor Who)|Father's Day]]" drawing on the tone of Cornell's novels in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line. Davies had asked both Shearman and Cornell to write their scripts with those respective styles in mind.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Aldridge |first1=Mark |last2=Murray |first2=Andy |title=T is for Television: The Small Screen Adventures of Russell T Davies |date=30 November 2008 |publisher=Reynolds & Hearn Ltd |isbn=978-1-905287-84-0|page=189}}</ref> The episode "[[Boom Town (Doctor Who)|Boom Town]]" included a reference to the novel ''The Monsters Inside'', becoming the first episode to acknowledge (albeit in a subtle way) spin-off fiction.<ref name="TheMonstersInside" />

===Music===
[[Murray Gold]] composed the music for this series, which was entirely synthesised.

=== Filming ===
[[Principal photography]] for the series began on 18 July 2004 on location in Cardiff for "Rose".<ref>{{cite news |date=31 August 2005 |title=Aliens of London/World War Three |periodical=Doctor Who Magazine: Series One Companion |issue=11 – Special Edition |page=31 }}</ref> The series was filmed across South East Wales, mostly in or around Cardiff.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/doctorwho/locationsguide_s01.shtml |title=BBC&nbsp;– South East Wales Doctor Who&nbsp;– Location Guide |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502124531/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/doctorwho/locationsguide_s01.shtml |archive-date= 2 May 2011}}</ref> Each episode took about two weeks to film.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4400000/newsid_4400600/4400677.stm |title=Doctor Who: Behind the scenes |publisher=[[CBBC Newsround]] |date=1 April 2005 |access-date=24 November 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203055712/http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4400000/newsid_4400600/4400677.stm |archive-date= 3 December 2013}}</ref> The start of filming created stress among the production team because of unseen circumstances: several scenes from the first block had to be re-shot because the original footage was unusable; the [[Slitheen]] prosthetics for "Aliens of London", "World War Three", and "Boom Town" were noticeably different from their [[Computer-generated imagery|computer-generated]] counterparts; and, most notably, the BBC came to a gridlock with the [[Terry Nation]] estate to secure the [[Dalek]]s for the sixth episode of the series, to be written by [[Rob Shearman]].<ref name="filming">Aldridge and Murray pp. 192–193</ref> After the first production block, which Davies described as "hitting a brick wall", the show's production was markedly eased as the crew familiarised themselves.<ref name="filming" /> Filming concluded on 23 March 2005.<ref name="Companion" /> [[David Tennant]], who was cast as Eccleston's replacement,<ref name="Eccleston_replacement" /> recorded his appearance at the end of "The Parting of the Ways" on 21 April 2005<ref name="Companion">{{cite news |date=31 August 2005 |title=Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways |periodical=Doctor Who Magazine: Series One Companion |issue=11 – Special Edition |page=93 }}</ref> with a skeleton crew.<ref>{{Citation|last=dgw934drwho |title=Doctor Who: David Tennant, Russell T Davies & Julie Gardner on Our First Day on Doctor Who |date=1 January 2010 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAKt_Tpgisc |access-date=6 March 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405145237/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAKt_Tpgisc |archive-date= 5 April 2017}}</ref> Production blocks were arranged as follows:<ref>Russell, p. 81</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; margin-right:0;"
|-
! style="width:8%" | Block !! Episode(s) !! Director !! Writer(s) !! Producer !! Code
|-
! rowspan="3" | 1
| Episode 1: "[[Rose (Doctor Who episode)|Rose]]"
| rowspan="3" | [[Keith Boak]]
| rowspan="4" | [[Russell T Davies]]
| rowspan="13" | [[Phil Collinson]]
| 1.1
|-
| Episode 4: "[[Aliens of London]]"
| 1.4
|-
| Episode 5: "[[World War Three (Doctor Who)|World War Three]]"
| 1.5
|-
! rowspan="2" | 2
| Episode 2: "[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]"
| rowspan="2" | [[Euros Lyn]]
| 1.2
|-
| Episode 3: "[[The Unquiet Dead]]"
| [[Mark Gatiss]]
| 1.3
|-
! rowspan="2" | 3
| Episode 6: "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]"
| rowspan="2" | [[Joe Ahearne]]
| [[Robert Shearman]]
| 1.6
|-
| Episode 8: "[[Father's Day (Doctor Who)|Father's Day]]"
| [[Paul Cornell]]
| 1.8
|-
! 4
| Episode 7: "[[The Long Game]]"
| [[Brian Grant (director)|Brian Grant]]
| [[Russell T Davies]]
| 1.7
|-
! rowspan="2" | 5
| Episode 9: "[[The Empty Child]]"
| rowspan="2" | [[James Hawes]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Steven Moffat]]
| 1.9
|-
| Episode 10: "[[The Doctor Dances]]"
| 1.10
|-
! rowspan="3" | 6
| Episode 11: "[[Boom Town (Doctor Who)|Boom Town]]"
| rowspan="3" | Joe Ahearne
| rowspan="3" | [[Russell T Davies]]
| 1.11
|-
| Episode 12: "[[Bad Wolf]]"
| 1.12
|-
| Episode 13: "[[The Parting of the Ways]]"
| 1.13
|}

== Release ==

=== Promotion ===
The new logo was revealed on the BBC website on 18 October 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/10/18/14927.shtml|title=Doctor Who logo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222201047/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/10/18/14927.shtml|archive-date=22 February 2006|publisher=BBC|date=18 October 2004|access-date=31 March 2012}}</ref> The first official trailer was released as part of BBC One's Winter Highlights presentation on 2 December 2004 and subsequently posted on the Internet by the BBC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/12/02/15823.shtml|title=New Series Teaser|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619230927/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/12/02/15823.shtml|archive-date=19 June 2006|publisher=BBC|date=2 December 2004|access-date=31 March 2012}}</ref> A media blitz including billboards and posters across the UK started early March 2005. Television trailers started showing up on 5 March and [[radio advertisement]]s started two weeks before the series premiere and ran till the second episode aired. The official ''Doctor Who'' website was launched with exclusive content such as games and new Ninth Doctor information.<ref name="Who_U.S." />

=== Leak ===
An early edit of the premiere was [[Internet leak|leaked onto the Internet]] three weeks before the scheduled series premiere.<ref name="leak">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4326005.stm |title=New Dr Who leaked onto internet |date=8 March 2005 |work=BBC News |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601092833/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4326005.stm |archive-date= 1 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="investigation">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4328329.stm |title=BBC investigates Doctor Who leak |date=8 March 2005 |work=BBC News |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103025043/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4328329.stm |archive-date= 3 November 2012}}</ref> This attracted much media attention and discussion amongst fans, and caused interest in the show to skyrocket.<ref name="leaked_on_purpose">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/03/66913 |title=New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose? |date=16 March 2005 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100913140042/http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/03/66913 |archive-date=13 September 2010}}</ref> The BBC released a statement that the source of the leak appeared to be connected to the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]], which responded by stating that they "are looking into it. That's all I can say at this point because we don't know exactly what happened. It certainly wasn't done intentionally."<ref name="investigation" /> Asa Bailey, founder of the Viral Advertising Association, said that the BBC hired them for viral marketing strategies, and that he told them "they should release things before their time", to create a "cool factor". Both the BBC and CBC denied any involvement, but Bailey believes that to be disingenuous, saying that it is "the best viral advert they could have done".<ref name="leaked_on_purpose" /> The leak was ultimately traced to a third-party company in Canada which had a legitimate preview copy. The employee responsible was fired by the company.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr Who Culprit Fired |publisher=contactmusic.com |date=24 March 2005 |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/dr%20who%20culprit%20fired |access-date=1 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205155100/http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/dr%20who%20culprit%20fired |archive-date= 5 February 2009}}</ref>

=== Broadcast ===
"Rose" finally saw transmission on schedule on 26 March 2005 at 7&nbsp;pm on BBC One, the first regular episode of ''Doctor Who'' since Part Three of ''[[Survival (Doctor Who)|Survival]]'' on 6 December 1989. To complement the series, [[BBC Wales]] also produced ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', a 13-part documentary series with each episode broadcast on [[BBC Three]] immediately after the end of the weekly instalment on BBC One. Both the series and documentary aired for 13 consecutive weeks, with the finale episode, "The Parting of the Ways", airing on 18 June 2005 along with its documentary counterpart. Davies had requested that the two first episodes be broadcast back-to-back, but the request was given to the BBC just two weeks before transmission, at which point everything was already set.<ref name="btb">{{cite web |last=Nazzaro |first=Joe |title=''Who'' Timing Was Right |publisher=[[Sci Fi Wire]] |date=14 March 2006 |url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=34982 |access-date=6 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114090200/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=34982 |archive-date=14 November 2007}}</ref> In some regions, the first few minutes of the original BBC broadcast of "Rose" on 26 March were marred by the accidental mixing of a few seconds of sound from [[Graham Norton]] hosting ''[[Strictly Dance Fever]]''.<ref name="ratings_Rose" />

In the United States, the [[Sci Fi Channel]] originally passed on the new series as it found it lacking and believed it did not fit in its schedule,<ref name="Who_U.S.">{{cite web|url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/592/592429p1.html |title=The ''Who'' Report: Did Sci Fi Pass on the Series? |date=1 March 2005 |author=KJB |publisher=IGN |access-date=2 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228144058/http://movies.ign.com/articles/592/592429p1.html |archive-date=28 February 2007 }}</ref> but the network later changed its mind. After it was announced that the first series would start in March 2006, Sci Fi Channel executive vice president [[Thomas Vitale]] called ''Doctor Who'' "a true sci-fi classic", with creative storytelling and colorful history, and was excited to add it to its line up. The network also took an option on the second series. Candace Carlisle from [[BBC Worldwide]] found the Sci Fi Channel the perfect home for ''Doctor Who''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4607966.stm |title=American opening for Doctor Who |date=12 January 2006 |work=BBC News |access-date=4 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081124051343/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4607966.stm |archive-date=24 November 2008}}</ref> ''Doctor Who'' finally debuted in the U.S. on the Sci Fi Channel on 17 March 2006 with the first two episodes airing back-to-back, one year after the Canadian and UK showings.<ref name="btb" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/television/17who.html |title=The Return of the Regenerated: A New 'Doctor Who{{'-}} |date=17 March 2006 |first=Charles |last=McGrath |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105006/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/television/17who.html |archive-date= 2 April 2015}}</ref> The series concluded its initial U.S. broadcast on 9 June 2006.<ref name="US_ratings" />

=== Home media ===
{{see also|List of Doctor Who home video releases|List of other Doctor Who home video releases}}

==== DVD and Blu-ray releases ====
The series was first released in volumes; the first volume, containing the first three episodes, was released in [[DVD region code#Region codes and countries|Region 2]] on 16 May 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-1-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1755/ |title=Doctor Who – The New Series: Volume 1 (DVD) |publisher=BBC Shop |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802071411/http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-1-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1755/ |archive-date= 2 August 2011}}</ref> The second, with "Aliens of London", "World War Three", and "Dalek", followed on 13 June 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-2-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1756/ |title=Doctor Who – The New Series: Volume 2 (DVD) |publisher=BBC Shop |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802062017/http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-2-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1756/ |archive-date= 2 August 2011}}</ref> "The Long Game", "Father's Day", "The Empty Child", and "The Doctor Dances" were released in the third volume on 1 August 2005<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-3-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1757/ |title=Doctor Who – The New Series: Volume 3 (DVD) |publisher=BBC Shop |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802063820/http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-3-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1757/ |archive-date= 2 August 2011}}</ref> and the final three episodes were released in the fourth volume on 5 September 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-4-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1758/ |title=Doctor Who – The New Series: Volume 4 (DVD) |publisher=BBC Shop |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803024032/http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-new-series-volume-4-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1758/ |archive-date= 3 August 2011}}</ref>

The entire series was then released in a boxset on 21 November 2005 in Region 2. Aside from the 13 episodes it included commentaries on every episode, a video diary from Davies during the first week of filming, as well as other featurettes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-complete-first-series-boxset-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1770/ |title=Doctor Who: The Complete First Series: Boxset (DVD) |publisher=BBC Shop |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802075155/http://www.bbcshop.com/christopher-eccleston/doctor-who-the-complete-first-series-boxset-dvd/invt/bbcdvd1770/ |archive-date= 2 August 2011}}</ref> The boxset was released in Region 1 on 4 July 2006.<ref name="DVD Talk" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E41MS6/|title=Doctor Who: The Complete First Series (2005)|website=Amazon|date=15 September 2009 |access-date=19 July 2011}}</ref>

{{#lst:List of Doctor Who home video releases|Series1}}

==== UMD releases ====
{{#lst:List of other Doctor Who home video releases|UMDSeries1}}

{{Notelist}}

==In print==
{{see also|List of Doctor Who novelisations}}
{{#lst:List of Doctor Who novelisations|Series1}}

== Reception ==

=== Ratings ===
[[File:Doctor Who (series 1) viewers.JPG|thumb|Final ratings for the first series.]]
"Rose" received average overnight ratings of 9.9&nbsp;million viewers, peaking at 10.5&nbsp;million, respectively 43.2% and 44.3% of all viewers at that time. The final figure for the episode, including video recordings watched within a week of transmission, was 10.81&nbsp;million, making it the third highest for BBC One that week and seventh across all channels. The opening episode was the highest rated episode of the first series.<ref name="ratings_Rose">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4385801.stm |title=Doctor Who is Saturday night hit |date=27 March 2005 |work=BBC News |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020031916/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4385801.stm |archive-date=20 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklyterrestrial&requesttimeout=500 |title=Weekly Viewing Summary: Terrestrial Top 30 – Week ending 6 July 2008 |access-date=30 December 2010 |publisher=[[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board]] |date=16 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080713233601/http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklyterrestrial&RequestTimeout=500 |archive-date=13 July 2008}}</ref> The penultimate episode, "Bad Wolf", received the lowest viewers of the series with just 6.81&nbsp;million viewers.<ref>Russell, p. 139</ref> The series also garnered the highest audience [[Appreciation Index]] of any non-[[soap opera|soap]] drama on television.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2007/11/these-scifi-people-vote/ |title={{-"}}These sci-fi people vote{{"-}} |last=Wright |first=Mark |work=[[The Stage]] |date=1 November 2007 |access-date=30 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409164855/http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2007/11/these-scifi-people-vote/ |archive-date= 9 April 2008}}</ref> Besides the second episode, "The End of the World", which garnered a 79% rating, the lowest of the series, all episodes received an AI above 80%. The series finale "The Parting of the Ways" was the highest rated episode with an AI of 89%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ratings Guide |url=http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&type=date |website=Doctor Who News |access-date=27 December 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018011335/http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&type=date |archive-date=18 October 2015}}</ref> The success of the launch saw the BBC's Head of Drama [[Jane Tranter]] confirming on 30 March that the series would return both for a [[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas Special]] in December 2005 and a full [[Doctor Who (series 2)|second series]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4395147.stm |title=New Doctor Who series confirmed |date=30 March 2005 |work=BBC News |access-date=1 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113745/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4395147.stm |archive-date=26 August 2014}}</ref>

The initial Sci Fi Channel broadcasts of the series attained an average [[Nielsen Rating]] of 1.3, representing 1.5&nbsp;million viewers in total.<ref name="US_ratings">{{cite web |date=13 June 2006 |url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=36602 |title=Who Boosts SCI FI Ratings |work=[[Sci Fi Wire]] |publisher=[[Syfy|Sci Fi Channel]] |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212003851/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=36602 |archive-date=12 February 2008 }}</ref> Although these ratings were less than those reached by Sci Fi's original series ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', they reflect a 44% increase in ratings and a 56% increase in viewership over the same timeslot in the second quarter of 2005, as well as increases of 56% and 57% in two key demographics.<ref name="US_ratings" /><ref>{{cite web |date=28 March 2006 |url=http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/03/ratingsriseforscififridays.shtml |title=Ratings rise for SCI FI Friday season finales |work=[[GateWorld]] |publisher=[[Nielsen Media Research|Nielsen Galaxy Report]] |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519082629/http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/03/ratingsriseforscififridays.shtml |archive-date=19 May 2006}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Ratings Ranking of Episodes using '''7 day data''' <ref>{{Cite web |title=Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 – Sept 2018) Barb |url=https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/ |access-date=2025-05-28 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
!Episode Title
!BBC One (Daily)
!All Channels (Daily)
!BBC One (Weekly)
!All Channels (Weekly)
|-
|Rose
|#1
|#1
|#3
|#7
|-
|End of the World
|#1
|#1
|#6
|#19
|-
|The Unquiet Dead
|#1
|#1
|#5
|#16
|-
|Aliens of London
|#2
|#2
|#6
|#18
|-
|World War Three
|#2
|#2
|#6
|#20
|-
|Dalek
|#1
|#1
|#5
|#14
|-
|The Long Game
|#2
|#2
|#6
|#17
|-
|Father's Day
|#1
|#1
|#5
|#17
|-
|The Empty Child
|#3
|#3
|#8
|#21
|-
|The Doctor Dances
|#1
|#1
|#7
|#19
|-
|Boom Town
|#2
|#2
|#7
|#18
|-
|Bad Wolf
|#2
|#2
|#8
|#19
|-
|Parting of the Ways
|#1
|#1
|#7
|#17
|-
|'''Series Average'''
|'''#2'''
|'''#2'''
|'''#6'''
|'''#17'''
|}

=== Critical reception ===
[[File:Doctor Who 2005 logo.png|thumb|The [[title card]] for the series of ''Doctor Who'' features the new logo, which some fans disliked so much they sent [[hate mail]] to the production team.<ref name="Response1" /><ref name="Response2" />|alt=A geometrical symmetric lens shape with the words Doctor Who in all-caps flying through green and red wormhole effect.]]
Review aggregation website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] offers an 83% approval from 12 critic reviews, and an average rating of 8.6/10.<ref name="RottenTomatoes">{{cite Rotten Tomatoes |id=doctor_who |type=tv |season=1 |title=Doctor Who |access-date=<!--UPDATE-->16 February 2020}}</ref>

In April 2004, [[Michael Grade]] returned to the BBC, this time as the Chairman of the [[Board of Governors of the BBC|Board of Governors]], although this position does not involve any commissioning or editorial responsibilities.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3591985.stm |title=Michael Grade is new BBC chairman |date=2 April 2004 |work=BBC News |access-date=1 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826121442/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3591985.stm |archive-date=26 August 2014}}</ref> Although he had previously disliked the show and imposed an eighteen-month hiatus on it during the [[Sixth Doctor]] era, he eventually wrote an e-mail to the [[Director-General of the BBC]] [[Mark Thompson (television executive)|Mark Thompson]] in June 2005, after the successful new first series, voicing approval for its popularity. He also declared, "[I] never dreamed I would ever write this. I must be going soft!"<ref>{{cite news |first=Jason |last=Dean |title=Doctor Who's greatest enemy finally surrenders |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,1511605,00.html |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=22 June 2005 |access-date=1 January 2011 |location=London}}</ref> The revival also impressed [[Seventh Doctor|former Doctor]] [[Sylvester McCoy]], who praised Eccleston and Piper as well as their characters, and the pacing of the first episode. His only criticism was about the new TARDIS interior, though he did comment that he was "also a bit dismayed that more wasn't made of the show's incidental music, which seemed fairly anonymous in the background".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4380477.stm |title=New Who impresses ex-Doctor McCoy |publisher=BBC |date=6 April 2005 |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206180133/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4380477.stm |archive-date= 6 February 2011}}</ref>

Robin Oliver of ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' praised Davies for taking "an adult approach to one of television's most famous characters" that children would appreciate, and that he reinvented it in a way that would be "competitive in a high-tech market". Oliver also wrote that older viewers would find Eccleston "easily the best time lord since [[Tom Baker]]".<ref>{{cite web|first=Robin |last=Oliver |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/Review/Doctor-Who/2005/05/20/1116533531775.html |title=Doctor Who: Show of the Week |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=21 May 2005 |access-date=31 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921102403/http://www.smh.com.au/news/Review/Doctor-Who/2005/05/20/1116533531775.html |archive-date=21 September 2013}}</ref> Reviewing the first episode, ''[[The Stage]]''{{'}}s Harry Venning hailed it as a "fabulous, imaginative, funny and sometimes frightening reinvention" and particularly praised Rose for being an improvement upon previous female companions who were "fit only to scream or be captured". However, he found Eccleston to be "the show's biggest disappointment" as he looked "uncomfortable playing fantasy".<ref>{{cite web|first=Harry |last=Venning |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/7193/tv-review |title=TV Review |work=[[The Stage]] |date=4 April 2005 |access-date=31 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819133842/http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/7193/tv-review |archive-date=19 August 2012}}</ref> [[Digital Spy]]'s Dek Hogan found the final episode anticlimactic, but overall said that the series was "excellent Saturday night telly of the kind that many of us thought the BBC had forgotten how to make". He praised Eccleston's performance and named "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" as the best episodes.<ref>{{cite web|first=Dek |last=Hogan |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/dekstvdiary/a21920/the-global-jukebox.html |title=The Global Jukebox |publisher=[[Digital Spy]] |date=19 June 2005 |access-date=26 March 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214180709/http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/dekstvdiary/a21920/the-global-jukebox.html |archive-date=14 December 2013}}</ref> Arnold T Blumburg of ''[[Now Playing (magazine)|Now Playing]]'' gave the series a grade of A−, praising its variety. However, he was critical of Davies' "annoying tendency to play to the lowest common denominator with toilet humor", but felt that from "Dalek" on the series was more dramatic and sophisticated.<ref>{{cite web|first=Arnold T|last=Blumburg|url=http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/1844/47/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623044925/http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/1844/47/|archive-date=23 June 2006|title=Doctor Who – Series 1 Wrap-Up|work=[[Now Playing (magazine)|Now Playing]]|date=16 June 2006|access-date=16 June 2006}}</ref>

[[DVD Talk]]'s John Sinnott rated the first series four and a half out of five stars, writing that it "keeps a lot of the charm and excitement of the original (as well as the premise), while making the series easily accessible for new viewers". Sinnott praised the faster pace and the design changes that made it feel "fresh", as well as Eccleston's Doctor. However, he felt that Piper only did a "credible" job as Eccleston eclipsed her, and said that the writing was "uneven" with many of the episodes "just slightly flawed".<ref name="DVD Talk">{{cite web|first=John |last=Sinnott |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22384/doctor-who-the-complete-first-season/ |title=Doctor Who – The Complete First Season |publisher=[[DVD Talk]] |date=24 June 2006 |access-date=26 March 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628043523/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22384/doctor-who-the-complete-first-season/ |archive-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> Looking back on the series in 2011, Stephen Kelly of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote, "Eccleston's Doctor may have had many faults&nbsp;– looking like an ''[[EastEnders]]'' extra and bellowing "FANTASTIC!" at every opportunity being two of them&nbsp;– but he was merely a reflection of a show that, at the time, still didn't know what it wanted to be. The first series of the revived ''Doctor Who''&nbsp;– which featured farting aliens&nbsp;– was a world away from the intelligent, populist science-fiction we know it as now. But then, it is thanks to Eccleston that it got this far at all&nbsp;– a big, respectable name who laid the foundations for Tennant to swag away with the show."<ref>{{cite web|first=Stephen |last=Kelly |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jul/21/doctor-who-christopher-eccleston |title=Doctor Who: why did Christopher Eccleston leave show after one series? |work=The Guardian |date=21 July 2011 |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922110044/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jul/21/doctor-who-christopher-eccleston |archive-date=22 September 2013}}</ref>

However, not everyone was pleased with the new production. Some fans criticised the new logo and perceived changes to the TARDIS model. According to various news sources, members of the production team even received [[hate mail]] and [[death threat]]s.<ref name="Response1">{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/dr-who-staff-inundated-with-death-threats |title=Dr Who Staff Inundated With Death Threats |date=2 December 2004 |work=[[Contactmusic.com]] |access-date=30 December 2010 |archive-date=19 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219175901/http://www.contactmusic.com/doctor-who/news/dr-who-staff-inundated-with-death-threats |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Response2">{{cite web|url=http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Doctor-Who-Is-Back--The-Time-Lord-Returns/74975 |title=Doctor Who Is Back! The Time Lord Returns |work=ArticleSnatch |access-date=30 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707165932/http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Doctor-Who-Is-Back--The-Time-Lord-Returns/74975 |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref> "The Unquiet Dead" was criticised by parents, who felt that the episode was "too scary" for their young children; the BBC dismissed the complaints, saying that it had never been intended for the youngest of children.<ref>{{cite web|first=John |last=Plunkett |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/14/bbc.broadcasting |title=Doctor Who 'too scary', say parents |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=14 April 2005 |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204120317/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/14/bbc.broadcasting |archive-date= 4 December 2013}}</ref>

=== Awards and nominations ===
{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by Doctor Who}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}
|-
| rowspan="13" | 2005
| BBC 2005 TV Moments
| Golden Moment
| "[[The Doctor Dances]]"
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/tvmoments/winners.shtml |title=2005 TV Moments |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124203349/http://www.bbc.co.uk/tvmoments/winners.shtml |archive-date=24 January 2011}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="7" | [[BBC.co.uk]]
| Best of Drama
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_drama.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Best Drama |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817082907/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_drama.shtml |archive-date=17 August 2010}}</ref>
|-
| Best Actor
| [[Christopher Eccleston]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_actor.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Best Actor |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420132245/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_actor.shtml |archive-date=20 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
| Best Actress
| [[Billie Piper]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_actress.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Best Actress |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109215331/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_actress.shtml |archive-date= 9 November 2010}}</ref>
|-
| Most Desirable Star
| [[Billie Piper]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/most_desirable_star.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Most Desirable Star |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420121734/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/most_desirable_star.shtml |archive-date=20 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
| Best Drama Website
| ''Doctor Who'' website
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_site.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Best Drama Website |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420084510/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_site.shtml |archive-date=20 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
| 1st Favourite Moment
| "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]"
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/favourite_moment.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Favorite Moment |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420121730/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/favourite_moment.shtml |archive-date=20 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
| Best Villain
| Daleks
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=December 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_villain.shtml |title=Drama&nbsp;– Best of 2005&nbsp;– Best Villain |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420141115/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bestof2005/best_villain.shtml |archive-date=20 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[National Television Awards]]
| Most Popular Drama
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref name="NationalTelevisionAwards" />
|-
| Most Popular Actor
| [[Christopher Eccleston]]
| {{won}}
| <ref name="NationalTelevisionAwards" />
|-
| Most Popular Actress
| [[Billie Piper]]
| {{won}}
| <ref name="NationalTelevisionAwards">{{cite news|title=Dr Who scores TV awards hat-trick |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6104048.stm |work=BBC News |date=31 October 2006 |access-date=31 October 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106045321/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6104048.stm |archive-date= 6 January 2007}}</ref>
|-
| TV Choice
| Best Actor
| [[Christopher Eccleston]]
| {{won}}
| <ref name="TVQuickChoice" />
|-
| TV Quick
| Best Actor
| [[Christopher Eccleston]]
| {{won}}
| <ref name="TVQuickChoice">{{cite news|title=Street is best soap at TV awards |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4218078.stm |work=BBC News |date=6 September 2005 |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521182816/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4218078.stm |archive-date=21 May 2012}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="20" | 2006
| rowspan="2" | [[British Academy Television Awards|British Academy<br>Television Awards]]
| [[British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series|Best Drama Series]]
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref name="Awards2006-3" />
|-
| Pioneer Award
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref name="Awards2006-3" />
|-
| rowspan="3" | BAFTA Craft Awards
| Writer
| [[Russell T Davies]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BAFTACraftAwards" />
|-
| Director
| [[Joe Ahearne]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BAFTACraftAwards" />
|-
| Breakthrough Talent
| Edward Thomas
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BAFTACraftAwards">{{cite news|title=Television Craft in 2006 |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2006/tvcraft |publisher=BAFTA News |access-date=14 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305073734/http://awards.bafta.org/award/2006/tvcraft |archive-date= 5 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[BAFTA Cymru]]
| Best Drama Series
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref name="BAFTACymru2006" />
|-
| Drama Director
| [[James Hawes]]
| {{won}}
| <ref name="BAFTACymru2006" />
|-
| Costume, Make-up and Photography Direction
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref name="BAFTACymru2006">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4934216.stm |title=Doctor leads Bafta Cymru winners |work=BBC News |date=22 April 2006 |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105164822/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4934216.stm |archive-date= 5 January 2007}}</ref>
|-
| [[Broadcast (magazine)|Broadcast Magazine]]
| Award for Best Drama
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|date=26 January 2006 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/26/29141.shtml |title=Doctor Who wins Broadcast Award |work=[[BBC]] |access-date=24 April 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060423032532/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/26/29141.shtml |archive-date=23 April 2006}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4" | [[Broadcasting Press Guild]]
| Best Drama
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BroadcastingPressGuild" />
|-
| Best Actor
| [[Christopher Eccleston]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BroadcastingPressGuild" />
|-
| Best Actress
| [[Billie Piper]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BroadcastingPressGuild" />
|-
| Best Writer
| [[Russell T Davies]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="BroadcastingPressGuild">{{cite web|date=31 March 2006 |url=http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/awards/2006.html |title=Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2006 |publisher=[[Broadcasting Press Guild]] |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722142800/http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/awards/2006.html |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}</ref>
|-
| [[Dennis Potter]]
| Outstanding Writing for Television
| Russell T Davies
| {{won}}
| <ref name="Awards2006-3">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4982648.stm |title=Doctor Who is Bafta award winner |work=BBC News |date=8 May 2006 |access-date=29 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006032618/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4982648.stm |archive-date= 6 October 2007}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[Hugo Awards]]
| rowspan="3" | [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form|Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation,<br>Short Form]]
| "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]"
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="Hugo2006" />
|-
| "[[Father's Day (Doctor Who)|Father's Day]]"
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="Hugo2006">{{cite web|url=http://cluebytwelve.net/Hugos2006/07_Dramatic_Short.htm |title=Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form |work=2006 Hugo Award & Campbell Award Winners |access-date=29 December 2010 |date=26 August 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628003603/http://cluebytwelve.net/Hugos2006/07_Dramatic_Short.htm |archive-date=28 June 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref>
|-
| "[[The Empty Child]]" / "[[The Doctor Dances]]"
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2006/News/08_HugoCampbellWinners.html |title=Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners |work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus Online]] |access-date=27 August 2006 |date=26 August 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903090237/http://www.locusmag.com/2006/News/08_HugoCampbellWinners.html |archive-date= 3 September 2006}}</ref>
|-
| [[Royal Television Society]]
| Best Drama Series
| ''Doctor Who''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite news |url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1714821,00.html |title=RTS Programme Awards&nbsp;— Nominations |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 February 2006 |access-date=29 December 2010 |location=London}}</ref>
|-
| [[Siân Phillips]]
| Outstanding Contribution to Network Television
| Russell T Davies
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4934216.stm |title=Doctor leads Bafta Cymru winners |publisher=BBC |date=22 April 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313234953/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4934216.stm |archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[South Bank Show]]
| Breakthrough Award For Rising British Talent
| [[Billie Piper]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/30/29231.shtml|title=More awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208083501/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/30/29231.shtml|archive-date=8 February 2006|publisher=BBC|date=30 January 2006|access-date=31 March 2012}}</ref>
|}

== Soundtrack ==
<section begin=soundtrackInfobox />
{{Infobox album
| italic_title = no
| name         = {{yesitalic|Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack}}
| type         = soundtrack
| artist       = [[Murray Gold]]
| released     = 4 December 2006
| recorded     = 2005–2006
| genre        = [[Soundtrack]], [[incidental music|incidental]]
| length       = 75:54
| label        = Silva Screen Records
| producer     = Murray Gold
| chronology   = [[List of Doctor Who music releases|''Doctor Who'' soundtrack]]
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
| artist     = [[Doctor Who Soundtrack|''Doctor Who'' soundtrack]]
| type       = soundtrack
| prev_title   = [[Doctor Who: Devils' Planets – The Music of Tristram Cary|Devils' Planets – The Music of Tristram Cary]]
| prev_year    = 2003
| title      = Original Television Soundtrack
| year       = 2006
| next_title = [[Doctor Who series 3#Soundtrack|Series 3]]
| next_year  = 2007
}}
}}
<section end=soundtrackInfobox /><section begin=soundtrack />
Selected pieces of score from the {{nsl|Doctor Who (series 1)|first series}}, {{nsl|Doctor Who (series 2)|second series}}, and "[[The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who)|The Runaway Bride]]", as composed by Murray Gold, were released on 4 December 2006 by Silva Screen Records.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SILCD1224 Doctor Who – Series 1 & 2 |url=https://www.silvascreen.com/silcd1224-doctor-who-series-1-2/ |access-date=2 April 2024 |website=Silva Screen Records}}</ref> The cues from the first series were re-recorded by the [[BBC National Orchestra of Wales]], the original music having been created using orchestral samples.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/murray-gold-composing-doctor-who |title=Murray Gold: Composing For Doctor Who |work=Sound on Sound |first=Bell |last=Matt |date=1 June 2007 |accessdate=30 April 2023}}</ref>

Gold's arrangement of the main theme featured samples from the 1963 original with further elements added: an orchestral sound of low horns, strings and percussion and part of the Dalek [[death ray|ray-gun]] and TARDIS materialisation sound effects. Included on the album are two versions of the theme: the 44-second opening version, as arranged by Gold, and a longer arrangement that includes the "middle eight" (a name given to one of the sections of the melody), after Gold omitted it from both the opening and closing credits. Gold has said that his interpretation was driven by the title visual sequence he was given to work around. Often erroneously cited as being the same as the end credits version, this second version is in fact a new arrangement and recording.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Silva Screen Records News |url=http://www.silvascreen.co.uk/news.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212205542/http://www.silvascreen.co.uk/news.htm |archive-date=12 December 2006 |access-date=10 March 2024 |website=Silver Screen Records}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=6 November 2006 |title=Soundtrack details |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/11/06/37664.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202221723/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/11/06/37664.shtml |archive-date=2 February 2009 |access-date=9 November 2006 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| extra_column = Episode
| headline = 

| title1  = Doctor Who Theme (TV version)
| length1 = 0:40
| extra1  = Various

| title2  = Westminster Bridge
| length2 = 2:10
| extra2  = "[[Rose (Doctor Who episode)|Rose]]", "[[The Christmas Invasion]]"

| title3  = Bad Wolf
| length3 = 1:20
| extra3  = "[[The Parting of the Ways]]"

| title4  = Cassandra's Waltz
| length4 = 3:10
| extra4  = "[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]", "[[New Earth (Doctor Who)|New Earth]]"

| title5  = Slitheen
| length5 = 1:24
| extra5  = "[[Aliens of London]]" / "[[World War Three (Doctor Who)|World War Three]]", "[[Boom Town (Doctor Who)|Boom Town]]", "[[Love & Monsters (Doctor Who)|Love & Monsters]]"

| title6  = Father's Day
| length6 = 1:57
| extra6  = "[[Father's Day (Doctor Who)|Father's Day]]"

| title7  = Rose in Peril
| length7 = 1:41
| extra7  = "[[Bad Wolf]]" / "The Parting of the Ways"

| title8  = Boom Town Suite
| length8 = 3:04
| extra8  = "Boom Town"

| title9  = I'm Coming to Get You
| length9 = 1:14
| extra9  = "Bad Wolf"

| title10  = Hologram
| length10 = 2:17
| extra10  = "The Parting of the Ways"

| title11  = Rose Defeats the Daleks
| length11 = 2:33
| extra11  = "The Parting of the Ways"

| title12  = Clockwork TARDIS
| length12 = 1:20
| extra12  = "The End of the World"

| title13  = Harriet Jones, Prime Minister
| length13 = 2:15
| extra13  = "World War Three", "The Christmas Invasion"

| title14  = Rose's Theme
| length14 = 2:16
| extra14  = "The End of the World"

| title15  = Song for Ten (performed by [[Neil Hannon]])
| length15 = 3:29
| extra15  = "The Christmas Invasion"

| title16  = The Face of Boe
| length16 = 1:18
| extra16  = "New Earth"

| title17  = UNIT
| length17 = 1:46
| extra17  = "The Christmas Invasion"

| title18  = Seeking The Doctor
| length18 = 0:43
| extra18  = "Rose", "Love & Monsters"

| title19  = Madame de Pompadour
| length19 = 3:46
| extra19  = "[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]"

| title20  = Tooth and Claw
| length20 = 3:52
| extra20  = "[[Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)|Tooth and Claw]]"

| title21  = The Lone Dalek
| length21 = 5:01
| extra21  = "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]", "[[The Satan Pit (Doctor Who)|The Satan Pit]]", "[[Doomsday (Doctor Who)|Doomsday]]"

| title22  = New Adventures
| length22 = 2:21
| extra22  = "Boom Town", "The Parting of the Ways", "The Christmas Invasion"

| title23  = Finding Jackie
| length23 = 0:54
| extra23  = "The Parting of the Ways", "Love & Monsters"

| title24  = Monster Bossa
| length24 = 1:39
| extra24  = "Boom Town", "Love & Monsters"

| title25  = The Daleks
| length25 = 3:03
| extra25  = "Bad Wolf"

| title26  = The Cybermen
| length26 = 4:34
| extra26  = "[[Rise of the Cybermen]]" / "[[The Age of Steel]]"

| title27  = Doomsday
| length27 = 5:11
| extra27  = "Doomsday"

| title28  = The Impossible Planet
| length28 = 3:13
| extra28  = "[[The Impossible Planet]]"

| title29  = Sycorax Encounter
| length29 = 1:13
| extra29  = "The Christmas Invasion"

| title30  = Love Don't Roam (performed by [[Neil Hannon]])
| length30 = 3:59
| extra30  = "[[The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who)|The Runaway Bride]]"

| title31  = Doctor Who Theme (album version)
| length31 = 2:31
| extra31  = 

| total_length = {{tltl|0:40|2:10|1:20|3:10|1:24|1:57|1:41|3:04|1:14|2:17|2:33|1:20|2:15|2:16|3:29|1:18|1:46|0:43|3:46|{{tltl|3:52|5:01|2:21|0:54|1:39|3:03|4:34|5:11|3:13|1:13|3:59|2:31}}}}
}}
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== References ==
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|{{cite magazine |editor-last=Ainsworth |editor-first=John |year=2016 |title=Rose, The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead |magazine=Doctor Who: The Complete History |publisher=[[Panini Comics]], [[Hachette Book Group|Hachette Partworks]] |volume=48 |pages=70, 107, 149 }}
|{{cite magazine |editor-last=Ainsworth |editor-first=John |year=2017 |title=Aliens of London / World War Three, Dalek, The Long Game and Father's Day |magazine=Doctor Who: The Complete History |publisher=[[Panini Comics]], [[Hachette Book Group|Hachette Partworks]] |volume=49 |pages=44, 93, 126, 165 }}
|{{cite magazine |editor-last=Ainsworth |editor-first=John |year=2018 |title=The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, Boom Town and Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways |magazine=Doctor Who: The Complete History |publisher=[[Panini Comics]], [[Hachette Book Group|Hachette Partworks]] |volume=50 |pages=51, 92, 143 }}
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=== Bibliography ===
*{{cite book |last1=Aldridge |first1=Mark |last2=Murray |first2=Andy |title=T is for Television: The Small Screen Adventures of Russell T Davies |date=30 November 2008 |publisher=Reynolds & Hearn Ltd |isbn=978-1-905287-84-0 }}
*{{cite book |last=Russell |first=Gary |title=Doctor Who: The Inside Story |publisher=[[BBC Books]] |location=London |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-563-48649-7 |author-link=Gary Russell}}
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* {{Cite magazine |title=Series One Companion |url=https://archive.org/details/dwm-special-edition-the-companion/DWM%20Special%20Edition%2011%20-%20The%20Series%201%20Companion%202005/ |access-date=23 April 2024 |magazine=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |last=Pixley |first=Andrew |date=31 August 2005 |issue=11 – Special Edition}}
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== External links ==
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* {{Official website|http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vvcq}}
* {{IMDb episodes|0436992||Series 1}}
* {{Epguides|DoctorWho_2005|Doctor Who}}

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